Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-30
CorralIng the Whisky Business.

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NEW YORK, August 2sth. = Special i The
Commercial Bulletin says editorially: An ambi-
tious project for combining the whole of the Ger.
man dislllers in ring" and reducing the
spirit trade OF that Empire practically to
monopoly for the benefit of ring" leaders, is
the chief topic Of conversation at Berlin. The
coalition, 1t is said intend to beat all competi-
ton out OF the field and drive all foreign
countries, especially Russia, out of the worlds
markets. 1t is pretty big contract. aud it re
mains to be seen whether it can be executed.
Some of the more considerate German journals
have already some misgivings about it.
The National ZeitItng says: Even without
their very illconsidered fankness, the coali-
tion is calculated to very easily provoke reprisas
on the part of competing countries, and this
may lead to consequences quite different from
what Is expected Tor the German export trade"
Yesterdays Baseball.
New YORK, August 29th.-New York 3, Indi-
annapolis a.
PHLADEIPHIA-Phiadelp l6, Pit.sburg 7.
BosToN-Detroit I6, Boston 2
WAsHINGToN-Chicago 5, Washington ..
ASSOCIATION GAMES
CINCINNATI-Cincinnati Z Athletics s.
LOUIsvILLE-Louisville IA, Metropolitans s.
ST. LouIs-St. Louis Z, Brooklyn s.
CLEvELANp-ClevelandS, Baltimore 6.
A New Organ for Henry George.
lCoplght, 1887, by the California associated Press1
NEW YORK, August 29th.-[Special 1T is re-
ported that friends of Henry George have al
ready subscribed $4,000 for the establishment
OF an evening paper, the first number to be
issued on September 18TH. 1t will be called the
EtSntng Standard: Ex-Sheriff James O'Brien
viii be the financial backer of the concern.
Firemen as Incendiaries.
PLAINFIELD IN. j., August 29th-Eight mer,
al members OF No. 2 Engine Company, have
been arrested on charge of arson. One of
them confessed that they had set fire to num-
Der Of places by using Kerosene
Rates of Composition In New York,
NEW YORK, August 10Th. - Typographical
Union No. held a meeting to-day and dis
cussed the practfcability of demanding so cents
per thousand ems for setting type, besides 80
cents an hour extra for work after o'clock
A. N. The general sentiment was in favor of
demanding the advance.
The Arctic Castaways.
New BEDFORD CMass), August 29th-Charles
D. Kennedy, Third Lieutenant of the United
States steamer Bear, now cruising in the Arctic
Ocean, writes to his father, under date of Port
Clarence, July 10th, and gives faint hopes that
some of the crew of twenty-five men belonging
to the whaling bark Napoleon, of this port lost
in the Arctic in the summer of 1885, may yet be
alive.
The Parachute Man.
RocKAwAY BEACH On. ", August Goth
Ihomas j. Baldwin. the San Francisco aeronaut,
repeated his feat of jumping from balloon
here this afternoon. When one thousand feet
high he made the leap. His parachute re-
manned closed for the first 800 feet. and he de-
u.
parachute opened, and he sailed down easily,
dropping into the ocean, from which he was
picked up unhurt.
TIE Cbatsworth Horror,
BLOOMINGTON Qll), August 29th Judge
Reeves this afternoon admitted to bail in the
sum of $1,000, Timothy Coughlin section fore
man OF the t. p. and W. Railroad, who was re-
sponsible for the wreck at Chatsworth by which
nearly hundred lives were lost
Terrible Explosion in Mine.
SHENANDOAH (Pa.). August 9th.-Robert Mar
tin was killed and George Lawson fatally and
four other miners bady injured by an explosion
of dualn at the Draper colliery at Gilberton this
morning. Martin was handling stack when n
spark from his lamp fell on the primed end and
exploded it, blowing him into an unrecogniza-
bic mass.
Dismissed for Drunkenness.
WASHINGTON, August 29th.-The findings OF
the General Court-martial which tried Captain
Cyrus \. Gray, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry
have been acted upon by the President GRAY
was found guilty of conduct to the prejudice O;
good order and discipline in appearing at an in
spection at Fort Mead and for duty as Officer OF
the Day while drunk. The sentence was dis
mlssal Will take place in September next.
Over Million Day.
WASHINGTON, August Observation-Disclosures
the large pension payments this month,
amounting to sl6,5OO0 900, the receipts for the
month TO date are more than s 500 600 in excess
OF the total expenditures during the same
period. The receipts have averaged over a
million dollars day.
Foremen are a Nuisance.
CLEVELAND, August 29th.-One hundred
knights OF Labor struck to-day at the factory OF
the Standard Sewing Machine Company because
several new foremen were employed.